Kategoria BISAC: Language Arts & Disciplines >> Linguistics - Pragmatics

This book presents work on bridging inferences in discourse interpretation. It develops a formalization that permits integrating indirect anaphora in the construction of a structured discourse representation. From a broader perspective, it provides a suitable dynamic-logic framework which can account for underspecifications in cohesion and coherence of discourses by either inferentially resolving or contextually constraining them. Special attention is given to the resolution of bridging anaphora by means of integrating encyclopedic knowledge encoded in FrameNet into a formal theory of...

Forschungen zur Entwicklung des Menschen erleben gegenwartig unter dem Einfluss neuer methodischer Moglichkeiten in den beteiligten Disziplinen eine spektakulare Neuorientierung. Interaktion, Sprache und Kultur zahlen nunmehr zu den Schlusselbegriffen der Theoriebildung.
Neue Fragen stellen sich: Was genau bewirkt Interaktion? Wie sind Entwicklung und Erwerb in diesem Rahmen zu rekonstruieren? Worin besteht das besondere Potential der Sprache? Wie spielen evolutionsbiologische, entwicklungstheoretische, kulturvergleichende, linguistische und interaktionstheoretische Erkenntnisse...

Semiotics is long on theoretical, often obscure discourses, but short on applications that demonstrate with clarity the applicability of its methods. This book confronts a challenging object, the circus, and endeavors to describe its performances in ways that explain how circus acts produce meaning and cause a deep emotional involvement for their audiences. The approach is not top-down, such as would be a method that would dogmatically apply a particular theory to fully explain the phenomena in terms of this theory alone. Epistemologically, this book is an example of the bottom-up...

The future of English linguistics as envisaged by the editors of Topics in English Linguistics lies in empirical studies which integrate work in English linguistics into general and theoretical linguistics on the one hand, and comparative linguistics on the other. The TiEL series features volumes that present interesting new data and analyses, and above all fresh approaches that contribute to the overall aim of the series, which is to further outstanding research in English linguistics.

Apart from the Tractatus, Wittgenstein did not write whole manuscripts, but composed short fragments. The current volume reveals the depths of Wittgenstein's soul-searching writings - his "new" philosophy - by concentrating on ordinary language and using few technical terms. In so doing, Wittgenstein is finally given the accolade of a neglected figure in the history of semiotics. The volume applies Wittgenstein's methodological tools to the study of multilingual dialogue in philosophy, linguistics, theology, anthropology and literature. Translation shows how the translator's...

While the role of metaphor in economics and business has produced multiple research articles, no comprehensive book-length study has yet appeared. The present book is a timely attempt to fill this gap, giving a global coverage of the role of metaphor in business and economics. It spans time (from Classical Greece to the current business network meeting-room), space (from Europe through the Americas to Asia), cultures and languages (from continental European languages, Brazilian Portuguese to Chinese).

The theoretical grounding of the book is the Conceptual Theory of Metaphor taken...

CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE SOCIOLOGY OF LANGUAGE brings to students, researchers and practitioners in all of the social and language-related sciences carefully selected book-length publications dealing with sociolinguistic theory, methods, findings and applications.

It approaches the study of language in society in its broadest sense, as a truly international and interdisciplinary field in which various approaches, theoretical and empirical, supplement and complement each other.

The series invites the attention of linguists, language teachers of all interests, sociologists,...

Die Akten des 25. Kongresses der Societe de Linguistique Romane (Innsbruck 2007) enthalten die fur den Druck angenommenen Beitrage aus den Bereichen: Mehrsprachigkeit, Sprachkontakt, Translation, Phonetik / Phonologie, Morphologie / Syntax, Lexikologie / Wortbildung, Semantik, Phraseologie, Onomastik, Sprachnormierung, Soziolinguistik, gesprochene / geschriebene Sprache, Pragmatik / Diskursanalyse, Textphilologie / diachrone Lexikographie. Gesondert enthalten sie ferner die Beitrage zum Rumanischen, zum Ratoromanischen, zum Sardischen, zum Franzosischen Kanadas und der USA sowie zu den...

Die Akten des 25. Kongresses der Societe de Linguistique Romane (Innsbruck 2007) enthalten die fur den Druck angenommenen Beitrage aus den Bereichen: Mehrsprachigkeit, Sprachkontakt, Translation, Phonetik / Phonologie, Morphologie / Syntax, Lexikologie / Wortbildung, Semantik, Phraseologie, Onomastik, Sprachnormierung, Soziolinguistik, gesprochene / geschriebene Sprache, Pragmatik / Diskursanalyse, Textphilologie / diachrone Lexikographie. Gesondert enthalten sie ferner die Beitrage zum Rumanischen, zum Ratoromanischen, zum Sardischen, zum Franzosischen Kanadas und der USA sowie zu den...

Jonathan Berg argues for the Theory of Direct Belief, which treats having a belief about an individual as an unmediated relation between the believer and the individual the belief is about. After a critical review of alternative positions, Berg uses Grice's theory of conversational implicature to provide a detailed pragmatic account of substitution failure in belief ascriptions and goes on to defend this view against objections, including those based on an unwarranted "Inner Speech" Picture of Thought. The work serves as a case study in pragmatic explanation, dealing also with...

Presenting original, detailed studies of keywords of Danish, this book breaks new ground for the study of language and cultural values. Based on evidence from the semantic categories of everyday language, such as the Danish concept of hygge (roughly meaning, 'pleasant togetherness'), the book provides an integrative socio-cognitive framework for studying and understanding language-particular universes. It is argued that the worlds we live in are not linguistically and conceptually neutral, but rather that speakers who live by Danish concepts are likely to pay attention to their world in...